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Africa is the region of the world with the highest vulnerable employment rate, which in some parts of the continent can reach up to 77 percent. The lack of employment opportunities …

The major contributions of the DSN Initiative to global health were found to be the fostering of the new fields of One Health and Global Health Diplomacy; use of informal …

The Rockefeller Foundation’s Disease Surveillance Networks (DSN) Initiative was launched in 2007 under the new Strategy framework of the Foundation with the objectives of: [1] Improving human resources for disease surveillance in developing countries, …

Functioning disease surveillance networks contribute to reduce the socioeconomic impact caused by epidemics. Once national governments and partners involved adhere to policies and strategies to contain epidemics and disease threats, strengthening of surveillance-response …

The Rockefeller Foundation’s multi-year, $100 million Transforming Health Systems (THS) initiative aims to help developing world countries improve health services and financial protection from the cost of health services. At the …

  In Asia, the Foundation’s work in building disease surveillance networks has focused on the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance (MBDS) regional network and its member countries. The focus on cross-border surveillance has been justified …

Impact investments: An emerging asset class is a research note published by J.P. Morgan Global Research and is the result of collaboration between Social Finance at J.P. Morgan and The …

One in every ten people lived in urban areas a century ago. Now, for the first time ever, most people live in cities. By 2050, the United Nations projects, almost …

Over the course of nearly four decades, beginning in the 1940s, annual crop yields surged in poor countries around the world. Between 1960 and 1985 cereal yields, total cereal production, …